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When Jay Freireich was doing his
medical training, he met a nurse named
Haroldine Cunningham. He asked her out
on a date. She said no. “All the young
doctors were pretty aggressive,” she
remembers. “He had a reputation for
being very outspoken. He called a
couple of times, and I didn’t go.” But
one weekend, Cunningham went to visit
her aunt in a suburb outside of Chicago
—and the phone rang. It was Freireich.
He had taken the train out from Chicago
and was calling from the train station.
“He said, ‘I’m here,’” she remembers.
“He was very persistent.” This was the